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I once saw a transformer blow up. In 2008, we were getting ready to go into then Ralph Wilson Stadium for a Chargers-Bills game. I looked up and saw a mylar balloon hit a transformer on a pole with a huge and bright discharge of energy. That knocked out power for the entire stadium. We got into the stadium and after a short while the power came back on.
The game was only about 5 minutes in when the power went out again and there was nothing on anywhere in RWS. The game stopped, while there were frantic efforts to restore power; CBS switched to another game, the radio broadcast was done over the phone and the officials conferred with New York and were told to resume the game.
It was the most interesting sporting event I had ever attended. The only noise was the crowd; the officials kept the clock and when there are no commercial breaks, the game goes a lot faster. That Chargers-Bills contest is now known in NFL lore as “the Quiet Game.”
In the SUNY system, all students are required to take English 101. It was so remedial, I stopped going to class as I had learned all that in 7th and 8th grade. Towards the end of the semester, I went to the teacher and asked him what I had to do to pass the course, did it and got an A. This was in 1982. There is nothing new under the sun.
A few years back, DC did some comics where their top heroes met the Warner Bros. characters. Batman met Elmer Fudd and the Joker met Daffy. And of course, Marvin and J’onn teamed up.
The Warriors won the NBA title in 2022. No matter how bad your team is now, you still have to wait a few years before complaining about the state of your team.
I missed the first two weeks of First grade as I was recovering from having a congenital hernia repaired. Just before I entered high school, I had a dream where I couldn’t go to HS until I completed those two weeks of First grade.
Buffalo was chartered as a city in 1832. Most meteorological records only go to the 1870s. As for the stadium, that’s a story of corruption that cancelled a domed stadium in Lancaster NY, not in the snow belt, for the site in OP. I had Bills season tix from 1988 until 2010, and only a couple of games were really snowy. And in the 50+ years the Bills have played there, only two games have had to be postponed and moved to a different venue.
We’re at the northern tip of Lake Erie and opposite Buffalo is Fort Erie, ON. The British were on one side, the US on the other. Also, once the Erie Canal was built, Buffalo became a hub of commerce.
Odd places to build cities? How about LA, Vegas and Phoenix? Smart, build a city where there’s no water.
Where I live in north Buffalo, the lake-effect snow rarely hits us. The traditional snow belt only reaches into south Buffalo. What you see is mostly the southeastern suburbs of the Queen City. However, one of the places that is affected by lake-effect is Orchard Park, home of Highmark Stadium.
“…actual “stoopid conspiracy*” You mean like the pedophile ring run out of the basement of a business with no basement? Or Jewish Space Lasers? Face it, EVERY conspiracy is “stoopid.”
I once saw a transformer blow up. In 2008, we were getting ready to go into then Ralph Wilson Stadium for a Chargers-Bills game. I looked up and saw a mylar balloon hit a transformer on a pole with a huge and bright discharge of energy. That knocked out power for the entire stadium. We got into the stadium and after a short while the power came back on.
The game was only about 5 minutes in when the power went out again and there was nothing on anywhere in RWS. The game stopped, while there were frantic efforts to restore power; CBS switched to another game, the radio broadcast was done over the phone and the officials conferred with New York and were told to resume the game.
It was the most interesting sporting event I had ever attended. The only noise was the crowd; the officials kept the clock and when there are no commercial breaks, the game goes a lot faster. That Chargers-Bills contest is now known in NFL lore as “the Quiet Game.”